Special note: Vopt was a commercial program sold by Golden Bow Systems. Howard Barry Emerson, the author of Vopt, recently passed away and dictated Vopt to be made free after his death. Take a moment to thank the man for his generosity.

Vopt wont start. After the download the program keeps saying to close the exe. That’s as far as I got. well, thought it might have worked out.Not sure if theres a trick to installing and starting this program because I couldn’t get it to work.

If you are getting the “The program Vopt.exe must be closed before continuing. Please close the program and click Retry to continue” error. Cancel the install, start the program again saving the install vopt.exe program. Cancel again when you get the same error. Rename the VOPT’s install program vopt.exe to vopt9.exe and run again. The program is checking if vopt.exe is running and the install program is also named vopt.exe. Renaming the vopt.exe install program should fix this problem.

The program Vopt.exe must be closed before continuing.
Please close the program and click Retry to continue.

but the solution is simple, save installer to disk and rename it to somethning different than “Vopt.exe” (e.g. “Vopt-installer.exe”), because when it is named “Vopt.exe” installer detects running proces “Vopt.exe” and thinks that you have Vopt already installed and running.